Shriners needs help for physical therapy
Shriners Hospital is seeking volunteers to help its physical therapy department with driving, gardening and miscellaneous clerical activities from April through September.Various shifts are available. Volunteers are asked to commit to at least one shift a week for six months. They must be at least 16 years old and be able to provide recent negative TB test results.
Recreation therapy volunteers assist staff therapists with activities for patients, such as arts and crafts, sports, games and cooking.
Physical therapy volunteers provide clerical and nonpatient care support to the therapists.
Driving volunteers use hospital vehicles to transport patients and supplies. Clerical volunteers provide support in various areas, and garden volunteers maintain the hospital's inpatient garden.
Applicants should call Melissa Mateo, 951-3646, to obtain a volunteer application packet and more information.
Speaker blends health with spirituality
Dr. Christina Puchalski, founder and director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, will give a free public lecture at 7:30 tonight at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Pacific Ballroom.Puchalski, whose practice emphasizes integration of patients' spiritual beliefs into their health care, will discuss "The Role of Spirituality in End-of-Life Care."
Puchalski is also director of education at the National Institute for Healthcare Research, where she develops medical education programs on spirituality and end-of-life care and cultural issues in medicine. Her work has been featured on "Good Morning America," "ABC World News Tonight" and "NBC Nightly News."
Bake sale to benefit children's network
The Honolulu City and County Employees Federal Credit Union will host a bake sale March 7 to benefit the Children's Miracle Network.The bake sale will begin at 8 a.m. and end when the items are sold. It will be held at the credit union, 832 S. Hotel St., which is near Straub Clinic & Hospital.
For more information, call the credit union's marketing department, 539-0152.
New group replaces Hepatitis C support
HepCats has replaced the Hepatitis C Support Group disbanded by St. Francis Medical Center. The new group meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at Coffee Talk at Waialae and Kaimuki avenues.For more information, e-mail Linda Wong at leiahi@hawaii.rr.com or Tim Fedorka at tim.fedorka@motorola.com.
>> Maui police officer wins live-fire shooting contest [ TAKING NOTICE ]
Maui Police Sgt. Barry Aoki won the live-fire shooting competition in the First Annual Caswell-ASLET Challenge Cup in Ontario, Calif.
The event, held during the 2003 ASLET Conference on Jan. 7-11, required participants to use tactical movements on a mobile firearms range and hit targets in low light. Participants were scored on shooting accuracy and running time.
>> Julian McCreary, a professor and director of the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), has been named a fellow by the American meteorological Society.
Lorenz Magaard, a professor of oceanography and IPRC's executive associate director, has been named president-elect of the Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology.
>> Kamehameha Schools has been inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame.
>> Senator Daniel Inouye has nominated the following students for entrance into service academies this July:
U.S. Air Force Academy: Stephanie Rice, of Konawaena High School; Marissa Chow, of Punahou School; Mathew Reily, home-schooled, alternate.
U.S. Military Academy: Michael Prather, of King Kekaulike High School; Melvic Malanog, of Leilehua High School; Musashi de la Cruz, of Lanai High School, alternate.
U.S. Naval Academy: Christopher Hironaga, of New Mexico Military; Curtis Lefrandt, of University Laboratory School, David Carter, of Kalaheo High School, and Dylan Payne, of Lahainaluna High School, alternates.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Spouse of ex-Laie woman charged with killing her and daughter
The husband of a former Laie woman was charged this morning with fatally stabbing her and her 4-year-old daughter in Utah last week.The Salt Lake County District Attorney charged Brian Sullivan with two counts of aggravated murder, which is a capitol or death- penalty offense. He is accused of killing his wife, Kahuku High School graduate LaRae Marara Niu-Sullivan, 33, and her 4-year-old daughter Kehaulani Marie Sullivan last week.
Niu-Sullivan's family is bringing the bodies to Hawaii today.
Services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Laie 8th Ward at 55-630 Naniloa Loop on Saturday. Visitation is from 8:30-10:30 a.m., followed by the 11 a.m. service. Burial is at 12:30 p.m. at Laie Cemetery.
WINDWARD OAHU
Pair held after crash in a stolen vehicle
Police confiscated a flare gun and handgun replica yesterday during the arrest of two men who are suspected of fleeing the scene of a traffic accident in a stolen car.Police said the men apparently were involved in a collision before 12:30 p.m. on Paopua Street in Kailua. During their attempt to flee, the two sped toward an officer responding to the accident, forcing the officer to veer off the road to avoid a collision, police said.
The two later fled from the car. One man allegedly pointed a handgun replica at a bystander, who then chased him and helped police capture him. The second suspect, believed to be the driver, also was arrested.
Police said the car was reported stolen Jan. 29. Police recovered a plastic flare gun loaded with a 12-gauge shotgun shell and a handgun replica.
The alleged driver was arrested for investigation of reckless endangering, firearm violations, auto theft and drug possession. He also was arrested for alleged violating the terms of his release on bail for a previous arrest.
The other suspect was arrested for investigation of auto theft, terroristic threatening and drug possession.
10th teenage girl escapee gives up
After nearly six months on the lam, the last of 10 teenage girls who escaped the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua turned herself in yesterday.Police said the 17-year-old escapee gave herself up at 5 a.m. at the Kailua police station and was returned to the prison at 8:13 a.m. The girl was among the 10 teenage girls who overpowered two guards and fled in a van from the Windward facility on Aug. 31.
A prison guard was arrested later on suspicion he helped the girls escape.
Five of the escapees were arrested within a week, and two more were captured by Sept. 19. Another girl was arrested in November.
HONOLULU
HPD warns suspect is armed and dangerous
Police are asking for help finding Blaine Dupont, a 32-year-old fugitive considered armed and dangerous.Dupont is wanted on a grand jury burglary warrant and for questioning in a Sept. 20 burglary in the Catlin Park Naval Housing area near Honolulu Airport, police said. He also is wanted for questioning in the Friday theft of a .357 magnum revolver from a Pearl City Navy Housing home, where he was last seen.
Dupont is known to frequent Waikiki and airport hotels, but police warn that no one should approach him.
Dupont is described as 6 feet 2, 180 to 200 pounds, with dark brown hair, brown eyes and stocky build. Anyone with information may call investigator Dan Brindley at 474-6205 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
Police seek Kaimuki bank robbery suspect
Police want help finding a man who robbed the Kaimuki branch of First Hawaiian Bank yesterday.Police said he entered the bank at 3599 Waialae Ave. at 9 a.m. and gave a demand note to a teller, saying he was armed.
He fled after receiving money and was seen running Ewa-bound on Waialae Avenue.
The robber is described in his mid-30s, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds, with medium build and dark complexion. He had a large, wavy afro hairstyle, possibly a wig, and was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and dark- or gold-rimmed glasses.
Anyone with information may call Detective Derrick Kiyotaki at 529-3436, or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
Suspect in bank heist arrested behind bars
Police arrested a 42-year-old inmate at Oahu Community Correctional Center yesterday in connection with the robbery of the Ala Moana branch of American Savings Bank on Jan. 30.He was confined at the Kalihi prison in an unrelated case when he was arrested.
[ COURTS ]
Cellblock escape case goes to Circuit Court
A Honolulu police sergeant at the Central Receiving Division said he first noticed keys in a cellblock door before discovering that detainee Jessie Dutro was gone.Despite efforts to locate him, Dutro was nowhere to be found, Sgt. Robert Phillips testified yesterday at a preliminary hearing in District Court.
Dutro, 19, was arrested three days later, last Thursday, after he and another male allegedly broke into the Windward YMCA. District Judge Russel Nagata found there was sufficient evidence that Dutro committed the escape and three other offenses, including second-degree burglary, and sent the case to Circuit Court. Dutro will be arraigned on March 10.
Arcade-eatery bouncer sues local entertainer
Local entertainer Sean Naauao, whose recording of "Fish and Poi" won him a Na Hoku Hanohano Award, has been sued by a bouncer at Dave & Buster's who alleges he and another man attacked and beat him without provocation.Dave Matsui filed suit against Naauao and Joseph Uahinui in Circuit Court yesterday, seeking unspecified damages. Naauao said he had not seen the complaint, and declined to comment.
Naauao and Uahinui were at Dave & Buster's on Dec. 3, 2001, when they apparently were asked to leave, said attorney Christopher Dias, who represents Matsui.
"I don't know if they were being escorted out or forcibly removed, but a fight started and my guy got pummeled before he knew it," Dias said.
Matsui's injuries included a torn retina in his left eye, blurred vision, a broken left index finger, cuts and bruises.
Jury weighs charges in death of prisoner
A jury is expected to resume deliberating today in the case of a former Halawa adult corrections officer charged with reckless manslaughter for allegedly causing the death of inmate Antonio Revera nearly five years ago.Brian Freitas, 37, is accused of slamming Revera's head onto a table three times while a motionless Revera lay sedated on April 23, 1998.
Revera had earlier bit the hand of a prison sergeant while being escorted to a special holding cell, and a violent struggle ensued with six corrections officers bringing him down, prosecutors said.
The medical examiner had concluded that Revera died due to a violent hitting and shaking of his head.
